Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jongis an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Erica Jong quotes about
- divorce
- age
- generations
- getting-older
- way
- stories
- remembers-everything
- forgiving
- remember
- sexuality
- ends
- whole-life
- impossible-situations
- serious
- tools
- love-and-death
- paradox
- love-poetry
- long-distance-relationship
- mountain
- bed
- female-writers
- fiction
- lasts
- firsts
- morality
- betrayal
- betrayed
- betray
- time
As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
A wet dream in the mind of New York.
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Keeping a journal implies hope.
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.